A forensic artist has recreated the face of the Roman gladiator who was mauled by a lion in York. Last week, scientists ...

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast England, provide the first physical evidence of a Roman-era battle between a gladiator and a nonhuman animal anywhere in ...